Cohen decided to step down as Einstein OB/GYN department chairman at age 67 so he and his wife would have more time to spend with their six grandchildren.

In an interview earlier this year, Cohen told me his plan isn’t to stop practicing medicine altogether. He had hoped to taper off his responsibilities at Einstein over the summer and beginning in the fall come into the hospital a few days week.

Not surprisingly to those who know him, Cohen has since delayed his semi-retirement plans.

“This is the first thing I failed at,” he joked. “I failed at retirement.”

While giving up the OB/GYN chairman position at Einstein in Philadelphia, he is continuing to chair the same department at the year-old Einstein Medical Center Montgomery in East Norriton. Cohen said the physicians at the central Montgomery County hospital — which expected to do 950 deliveries in its first year, and instead handled 1,600 — asked him to stay on a little longer. He will stay through June.

Cohen is also leading a new foundation created in his honor — the Arnold W. Cohen MD Research Program — that is raising funds to help Einstein’s OB/GYN residents get more involved in research. The foundation received initial funding from the Albert Einstein Society. Among the projects the foundation is supporting are a look at how diabetes affects delivery outcomes and a study on how the use of social media can improve patient compliance with attending prenatal-care appointments.

“It has been tough [to manage the foundation] because I’ve been spending a lot of time going back and forth between the two hospitals,” he said.

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